The International Criminal Court corruption code

The ICC in The Hague, The Netherlands

The International Criminal Court for a number of years has failed to bring advanced countries’ leaders to face the law for their crimes against humanity in the third world, especially in Africa

Established based on the Rome Status and adopted in 1998, the International Criminal Court, ICC, in The Hague, Holland, initially began its work on July 1, 2002. 

As the first permanent international criminal court, some of the ICC tasks are to prosecute those responsible for genocide, war crimes against humanity, and crimes committed through military aggression.

For some time, the International Criminal Court has been under pressure and criticism for centering its effective activities and targeting war crimes in only African countries, thus; putting only African leaders behind bars, while they pretend not aware of the political and medical crimes, foreign countries, including Holland, The United States of America, Britain, Belgium, etc, have committed to Africa.

Certain crimes occurred during and after colonialism in Africa that the International Criminal Court should have done something about them when it was established. After slavery, Africa suffered Apartheid in South Africa, while King Leopold’s reign of terror decimated the Congolese in the Belgian colony of Congo.

Following the history of Africa under colonialism until the time independence swept through the continent, apart from physical crimes, medical research also proved enough that Europe and America deliberately inflicted man-made diseases in Africa through vaccination or via the eradication of other diseases such as polio.

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